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Westcott also talked about an important letter he received from a Northside minister, Rev. Workman, when he was sent to Toronto General Hospital with an eye injury he received while working for the Seaforth PUC in 1946. "Mail is an important way of communicating and is especially welcome when you are 100 miles away in a strange hospital. I think I hung on to it all these years for it told me that someone outside my family was thinking about me," he said. Outlining his career in Toronto from junior reporter at the Toronto Telegram to deputy minister for Bill Davis to Metro Toronto police commissioner, member of the National Parole Board and special assistant to Finance Minister Michael Wilson, Westcott looked back to Seaforth for the reason for his success. "I realized after a couple of years that I took something magic from this town when I left. I was blessed with an indefinable quality often called small town native intelligence. And, 1 got it here," said Westcott. "As I've said before - the Harvard School of Business could not have given me what I learned growing up in Seaforth," he said. More than 80 members of the congregation at Northside United Church, past and present, submitted contributions to a time capsule on Sunday that will be opened in 60 years at the church's 200th anniversary. Including family histories, family trees and pictures and letters to the future, the time capsule submissions will he sealed and placed inside an oak box that will be mounted at Northside United Church. "We're leaving it open for five or six more weeks for anyone who still wants to be included. We think we'll reach the 100 mark with the number of submissions," said organizer Bruce Whitmore. Steckle plans to continue investigating packers' profits as ag committee chair By Ann Harvey Shoreline Beacon Editor Continuing to investigate huge profits made by packers following discovery of a case of BSE in a Canadian cow is on the agenda for Huron Bruce MP Paul Steckle. The MP, who was unanimously re-elected as the chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri -Food on Tuesday, has been chair for the last two years. He said working in a minority government is not a problem to him. The 12 -member committee has five Liberal members and seven opposition members. "We're operating, in my opinion, the way a committee should operate. Input shouldn't come from one side but it should come from all sides of the House. "That's what democracy is all about." 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"Basically what happened "You wouldn't make a was a year ago we brought steak out of that because it'd out a fairly hefty program. As probably be tough but make soon as the program hit the hamburgers out of it and market the cattle prices they're wonderful." dropped." The MP said there is no But that was only prices doubt that the packers made paid to farmers not the retail huge profits from the market. situation. "That price didn't drop. "We already know because Farmers took a huge bath. the Attorney -General in the Animals that they were Province of Alberta called getting $1.45 to $ I.55 a their hooks in. The Excellent expected yields p conclusion was they had done nothing wrong." The committee is having auditors examine those books and report. "At the end of the day we'll know what kind of percentage of profits they made. "If there's wrong -doing suspected then the committee would take whatever action they feel appropriate. We have no capacity to lay charges. "We could refer it to the competition bureau. They could do a full forensic audit. They could, if it was deemed necessary, lay charges." This issue is part of a larger problem the committee want to address, he said. "We feel that there's been a culture develop in the slaughter capacity industry of this country. They believe they can take whatever they want out of the marketplace." for 95 per cent of local crops From Pogo 1 crops made up much of their lacking maturity and most of those concerns have disappeared. "Things are good from a yield perspective. Things are way better than we should have expected," said Johnson. "Ninety-five per cent of the crop is going to have good test weights. We're hearing excellent yields out there," said Johnson. Late May planted corn is still in trouble, but Johnson said that he expects its yields to he alright. April planted corn is having "ahsolutely tremendous yields." he explained. And, after three years of poor soy Kean crops yields are hack to relatively normal levels. "Fanners were absolutely pleasantly surprised as they went to the field to harvest their soy beans," said Johnson. "Things are just a totally different picture from the end of August to the end of September," said Johnson. Last weeks frost has had a small impact on crops, but Johnson recnforce that it didn't happen until after a month of awesome weather. "For most producers we got far enough along before we got significant frost to hurt things," said Johnson. £uth anax / 2Ie emeni fYew4'ence 100 James Street, Seaforth • 519-527-0030 Come join us for tome fun at our Grandparents Fall Festival under the big tent on the front lawn October 30th, 2004, 2-4pm * Face Painting *Clowns *Balloons *Treat Bags and More Personal tours of our beautiful common areas and suites will be available. For more info call Charlene at 527-0030 4